Method of making shoe-slugs



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F. I. RAYMOND, 2d. METHOD 0F MAKING SHOE SLUGS.

No. 467,522. Patented Jan.'26, 1892.

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FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEW/"FON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Y METHOD OF MAKING SHOE-SLUGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,522, dated January 26, 1892.'.

l Application filed January 19, 1888. Serial No. 261,233. (No model.)

To a/Zl whom t may concern.-

Be it known th at I, FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2d, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method of Making Shoe-Slugs of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to the method of making shoe-slugs like those described in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, executed December 31, 1887; and it consists, essentially, of along head and long point substantially of the length of the head and one or both sides tapering from the point to or toward the head, thus providing a slug the head of which is not diminished in length and not practically diminished in area as the heel or sole of the boot or shoe is worn.

To make the slug, I take a iiat wire of a width sufficient to provide thelength of head and point which it is desired that the slug shall have, and this wire is then reduced to shape by tapering one or both of its side surfaces at its end, and the slug is then completed by being severed from the wire at a point the necessary distance from the end of the wire plate. If desired, the taper of the next slug in order may be formed in the wire plate before the iirst slug is severed therefrom.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view of the wire platev to show its width. Fig. 2 is a view showing its thickness. Figs. 3 and I represent its end as provided with tapering surfaces. Figs. 5 and 6 show the wire Vplate as having a second set of tapering surfaces formed therein before the slug is severed therefrom. Figs. 7 and 8 show the wire plate after the severing of a slug. show the severed slug.

Figs. 9 and l0 Referring to the drawings, a represents the drawn wire plate. At its ends I form the ta pering side surfaces a. I then sever the tapered section from the wire plate at the upper end of the tapered section or adjacent to the upper end of the tapered surfaces, or before severing the slugs I form a second set of tapered surfaces above the first, as represented in Figs. 5 and 6, and for some reasons I prefer this method of making the slug.

I am aware that nails have been made having long shanks and points formed by two tapering surfaces, and that the point of the next succeeding nail in order has been formed before the nail has been severed from the end of the wire from which it is made. Mly slug varies from attaching-nails of all kinds in that it is not used for securing or fastening things together. It has not ashank in the ordinary sense of the term. The taper of its point begins at or very near its head and is formed upon the flat sides of the wire plate, preferably, by drawing or without removing any` stock from the wire plate.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesy The herein-described method of making iat wedge-shaped shoe-slugs, consisting in flattening metal stock to make it wider in one direction than in the other equally throughout its length and with parallel edges and sides forming angular corrugations at intervals on the fiat sides of the stock to provide points and heads which are separated to form individual nails, as set forth.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D.

Witnesses:

J. M. DoLAN, E. P. SMALL. 

